News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-17
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Sleeves are undergoing a change.

| Dark green felt hats are in favor.
Plush is revived in fashionable favor
The short visite or mantle is the wraI
for full dress.
Silver, gold and steel braids appear or
dreSsy jackets.
Coat sleeves are a matter of course or
tailor-made suits.
All house dresses have fancy sleeves Of
one kind or another.
| Silver braid on silver gray cloth makes
a beautiful trimming.
Jackets are worn by young women,
raglans by older ones.
All sorts of fancy colored borders APP
| pear on new handkerchiefs.
Long redingotes, with capes, are next
| to raglans in fashionable favor.
New redingotes reach to within an
| inch of the bottom of the skirt.
There is threatened change from high
coitfures to moderately low ones.
All frocks, unless tailor-cut aud made,
have full draperies on the bodice.
The coat sleeve is not the universal
favorite now that it has been in the past.
Miss Laura Minkle, blind woman, is
preaching temperance sermons in Iowa.
Mary Walker, of Kentucky, hanged
herself because she found few gray hairs
in her head.
There are 10000 milliners in New
York and Brooklyn, or about one bonnet
maker to every fifty women.
Plaids of Scotch wear are in the most
harmonious colorings; the tints are neutral
and blend in charming way.
The fashion of wearing two kinds of
braid on the same garment is not only
new this season but it is also pretty.
Queen Christina, of Spain, is not
pretty, her face being too heavy and in
expressive, but she has goodness and
tact.
Printed lawns are used for handker-
chiefs, and when a border is embroidered
on to them they are very pretty for young
ladies.
Miss Nellie King is the crack detective
of Minneapolis. She is only 20 wears
old, but she has achieved distinction as
thief taker.
Since the outer garment has become so
elaborate and beautiful the walking
dress has become less conspicuous in its
trimming.
Miss Rose Streater, of Midway, Ala,
is said to be the belle of the New South.
She is brunette, and at distance greatly
resembles Mrs. Cleveland
Miss F. H. Muller, of London, a men,
berof the London School Board, says the
United States is certainly the earthly
paradise of the gentler sex.
A present style consists in wearing
four gold wire rings on the same finger,
each being set with a single small stone,
as sapphire, emerald and ruby.
The long waved Astrakhan fur so much
used for Jackets quarter of century
ago, is in favor again for the same pur-
pose, but it has been rechristened
''Caracal"
The woman lawyer of Topeka, Mrs LIE
Greer, is reported to be growing in elo-
quence as a pleader, and tears dim the
eyes of Court and jury when she brings
pathos to her assistance
Plain plush wraps are to be exception
ally popular. They will be trimmed with |
beaded trimming and with rich orna-
ments at the front of the collar, on the |
sleeves, and at the lower ends of the |
fronts.
Natty little Engligh coats and Hun |
garian jackets will be worn extensively |
with tailor-made suits. They are trimmed |
with gimps in scroll, wheel and |
arabesque patterns, and are very stylish |
and serviceable.
Observant persons must have noted the |
decided tendency for some time past |
toward simplicity in children's costumes.
Sensible people will re oice to know that |
considered good form.
Miss Lucy Bauman is one of the rich |
est young women in California. She re-
sides in San Francisco and owns no less
than %, 900 acres of land in the interior
counties, not to mention big block of |
stock in line of coast steamers.
A new sash is of ribbon, about four
inches wide, which is first passed tightly |
around the waist to the back, then |
brought forward again and tied in long
loops and ends on the left of the front, |
about five inches below the waist line.
Pretty antique watches are now worn
by ladies. To the ring of the watch a
cluster knot of black MORE ribbon is tied,
and the timepiece is thus thrust into the |
corsage, leaving only the ribbon dis
closed as a sort of dress decoration. This |
allows one to wear watch on all occa-
sions
There are about 300 students at We'll
lesley college, and they do its homework.
Every girl is trained to do one kind of
work and to do it quickly and well.
Forty-tive minutes out of the twenty four
hours is allowed. Cooperation performs
wonders.
All the changes having been rung on
basques, bodices and Jackets polonaises
will receive large share this winter, and !
the soft camels'-hair goods, meltons and |
suitings of various kinds will be utilized |
for the long stately redingotes to be worn
over striped, plaided or plain velvet
skirts.
Girdles are prettily made of thick |
silken ropes twisted together, links of |
silk cord or strands of large black or
colored beads. These are no longer re-
served for wrappers, but appear on full |
dress and walking costumes, with long
tassels or ornaments Oh the ends hanging |
to one side.
Fashion is about to revive the gemmel |
ring, which came in about the beginning
of Queen Elizabeth's reign. 1t consisted |
of two divided hoops of slender round |
gold wire hingeing on tiny pivot, which
was removed to part the ring in two
Each one of an engaged couple wore one
half, to be reunited on the occasion of |